Science: Natural Camouflage

The military camouflage of World War IIlet alone World War Iis so
crude that it would shame innumerable snakes, caterpillars, birds,
fishes. For the unhappy fact is that man has failed to master many of
the primary principles of protective coloration practiced by the lower
animals.

So writes Zoologist Hugh B. Cott of Cambridge University in the preface
of his plentifully illustrated new book, Adaptive Coloration in Animals
(Oxford; $8.50). When it appeared in Britain, Cott was at once snapped
up by the British armed forces to make their guns as inconspicuous as...